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Rogue Folk Hero. You’re an inquisitive
THE MARK OF DETECTION trained by your house. You grew up in a bad
neighborhood, and while you could make more
“If you want a wall of muscle to get between you
gold solving the problems of nobles, you’re more
and a blade, go to House Deneith. If you want interested in helping your community.
someone to anticipate the threat and make sure you Sage Wizard. You’re a brilliant diviner and
aren’t even in the room with whoever’s holding inquisitive. You have a knack for uncovering
that blade… that’s what we do.” conspiracies, and you found one in House Med-
ani. It might involve shape-changed demons or
—Baron Trelib d’Medani dragons—or both. You don’t know how deep it
goes, but you’re certain that other dragonmarked
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It sharpens powers of observation and intuition,
allowing the bearer to draw connections and in- MARK OF DETECTION TRAITS
terpret clues others might miss. By actively draw-
If your half-elf character has the Mark of De-
ing on its powers, the bearer can detect poisons
and study the energies of magic. tection, the following traits replace the half-elf’s
Ability Score Increase and Skill Versatility traits
HOUSE MEDANI in the Player’s Handbook.
Ability Score Increase. Your Wisdom score
The Warning Guild of House Medani brokers increases by 2, and one other ability score of your
the services of bodyguards and inquisitives. choice increases by 1.
Medani advisors specialize in risk assessment Deductive Intuition. When you make an
and management, protecting clients from both Intelligence (Investigation) or a Wisdom (Insight)
physical and social threats. While Medani over- check, you can roll a d4 and add the number
laps with the inquisitives of House Tharashk and rolled to the ability check.
the bodyguards of House Deneith, the Warning Magical Detection. You can cast the detect
Guild specializes in subtle threats and complex magic and detect poison and disease spells with this
mysteries. trait. Starting at 3rd level, you can also cast the
The members of House Medani are half-elves see invisibility spell with it. Once you cast any of
with deep roots in Breland. Medani has little these spells with this trait, you can’t cast that spell
interest in the power struggles that sometimes _Q\P Q\ IOIQV ]V\QT aW] ÅVQ[P I TWVO ZM[\ 1V\MTTQ-
break out between the other dragonmarked gence is your spellcasting ability for these spells,
houses. Many Medani heirs are more interested and you don’t require material components for
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Medani heirs often work with law enforcement or Spells of the Mark. If you have the Spellcast-
PMTX \PW[M _PW KIV¼\ IٺWZL \PMQZ [MZ^QKM[ ing or the Pact Magic class feature, the spells on
the Mark of Detection Spells table are added to
DRAGONMARKED CHARACTERS the spell list of your spellcasting class.
Here are a few examples of characters with the DÙ» Ê¥ ãã®ÊÄ ^Ö½½Ý
Mark of Detection.
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0W][M )OMV\ *IZL With the kind of threats
ϭƐƚ detect evil and good͕ detect poison
your house deals with, words are often more
and disease
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ϮŶĚ detect thoughts͕ ĮŶĚ ƚƌĂƉƐ
eyes of the house, listening for rumors and watch-
ϯƌĚ ĐůĂŝƌǀŽLJĂŶĐĞ͕ ŶŽŶĚĞƚĞĐƟŽŶ
ing for dangerous cabals and conspiracies. Along
the way you do your best to mediate disputes and 4th ĂƌĐĂŶĞ ĞLJĞ͕ ĚŝǀŝŶĂƟŽŶ
defuse dangerous situations. 5th ůĞŐĞŶĚ ůŽƌĞ
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